Alexander Shopov
Structured Debt Partner, London
I focus on four key areas, securitisation, Structured Real Estate, financial asset/real estate portfolio trading; I also lead the Structured Finance ESG team at Linklaters.
Overview
Professional experience
Education and qualifications
Overview
Alex is a cross-border structured debt partner, based in London, with 20 years’ experience of market firsts in both the performing and distressed asset space. Alex is also experienced in the monetisation of non-standard asset classes and financial assets considered more difficult to securitise or repo. Finally, Alex has led on a number of high profile securitisation restructurings in Europe.
Alex spent a year on secondment to a leading international securitisation financial institution (in 2006) and led the legal R&D on a new securitisation product line.
Work highlights
His credentials include advising:
- Cerberus on the first ever partial securitisation call and reissuance (relating to the £4bn TPMF 2019-Granite4 UK RMBS)
- A financial sponsor on the first UK equity release mortgage (ERM) securitisation since the financial crisis
- A startup trade finance lender and their financial sponsor investor on the first ever trade finance securitisation programme
- The arranger bank on a £3bn UK RMBS with a bank risk retainer structure
- DavidsonKempner on the first ever non-bank NPL securitisation in Portugal
- DBS Bank on the establishment of the first ever Singapore covered bond programme
- Mann Island Vehicle Finance (MIVF) and Investec Bank plc on MIVF’s debut auto securitisation
- Credit funds on their non-recourse CRE lending repo programmes (US law and English law)
- A financial sponsor on an innovative margin loan using senior leveraged facilities secured on pan-European NPLs as margin loan collateral
- An investment fund on the senior financing of the largest portfolio of Spanish NPLs and REOs
- Lloyds Bank on the first ever UK Private Finance Initiative (PFI) loan securitisation
Professional experience
Alex was the Chair of the governing body of a Hackney (London) primary school in difficulties and led its turnaround programme. During his eight years as governor, Alex and his colleagues saw the school go from the bottom of Hackney’s exam results table to being in the Top 3.
Education and qualifications
Alex studied law at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge.